Our installation crew is the skilled team that crafts our many diverse foodscapes. Working for Love & Carrots is a great opportunity to learn how to build gardens and urban farms and break into the urban gardening industry. Installations can include the following:

• Perennial landscape installation
  • Includes planting perennials, shrubs, and trees, soil amendment, edging and mulching
• Garden structure carpentry: raised beds, arbors, garden fencing
• Drip irrigation system installation
• Dryset hardscaping, drainage solutions
  • Includes flagstone and riverstone paths, patios, french drains and dry riverbeds

Necessary Qualifications:

• Prior experience working in a labor-intensive role.
• The ability to work as part of a close knit team. 
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, trouble-shoot, and lead as necessary.
• High attention to detail and organization
• Ability to lift heavy (75lbs +) objects throughout the day.
• Ability to perform frequent high-intensity manual labor including pushing, pulling, and lifting various equipment and materials.

• Ability to work on their feet for the entire day in all weather conditions

• Must have a valid driver's license and the ability to drive larger vehicles/medium duty trucks
• We require that employees have received their initial Covid-19 vaccination - additional boosters not required

Preferred Experience in: (not required, but strongly favored)

• Landscape construction
• Carpentry 
• Heavy equipment, medium-duty trucks, skid steer

Schedule: 

Installation crew members work 10 hour days, 4 days/week 7:30AM - 6:00PM Monday - Thursday during the regular season. The crew works 5 days/week in the winter 7:30AM - 4:45PM Monday - Thursday and 7:30AM - 12:30PM Friday).

Compensation:

• Starting rate: $20/hr +, commensurate with experience
• $100 annual gear stipend
• Annual phone stipend
• Benefits include health and dental insurance, 401k, and a generous paid time off package
• Our office/headquarters has a large vegetable garden for staff to enjoy and take produce home from